"You know," Captain Clever said as he tied Dr Dastard up, "I always stop you from trying to take over the world, but you've never said what you'd do next.""Oh, you know. Universal free health care and education for all.""Hm. Can you finish these knots yourself? I've got to go."#MicroFiction#TootFic#SmallStories

Just finished listening to /Record of a Spaceborn Few/ by Becky Chambers. In the acknowledgements at the end, I learned of https://www.recompose.life/, which inspired a significant feature of the story.

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